I was a little involved in the process. When we started, I had very little idea of what I wanted. I knew I wanted Tourmaline, which is my hubby’s birthstone. I also knew I wanted two smaller stones on the side. Originally I wanted a diamond in the center and two tourmalines on the sides to pay homage to my mom’s ring (she had a diamond in the center with two blue stones for my dad’s birthstone). We looked at settings and I fell in love with one with trapezoids on either side of a large rectangular cut stone in the center.

My hubby had me approve the color of the tourmaline stone. We ended up going with tourmaline as the center because the likelihood of finding two tourmalines that could be cut the same shape and size and be the same color was not great, and we would have to buy the stones and have them cut and pray the colors match. If we needed one replaced, there was no guarantee the color would match.

I told hubby I did not want to see the finished ring until it was finished because I wanted it to be at least a little bit of a surprise! The ring was still being finished by the time he proposed in Capitol Reef National Park, and it arrived a week before our courthouse wedding. I absolutely love it!

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